Sarati
Script details
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| Code | Sara |
| Script type | abugida |
| Region | Artificial |
| Status | Fictional |
| Direction | other |
| Baseline | hanging |
| Case | no |
| White space | unspecified |
| Complex behaviors | diacritics |
| OpenType code | unspecified |
| ISO 15924 Numeric Code / Key | 292 (left-to-right alphabetic) |
Script description
The Sarati script is an artificial script created by J.
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R. R. Tolkien for writing the artificial language, Quenya, which is spoken in the fictional territory of Middle-earth, where many of Tolkien’s novels are set.
Sarati is an abugida. Each letter, called a sarat, represents one phoneme. The script is based on consonants, with vowels written as diacritics. The script can be written in any direction, vertically, horizontally or boustrophedon, but is most often written vertically from top to bottom.
Sarati was created partly to provide a history for the better-known Tengwar script, which is claimed to be the descendant of Sarati.
Languages that use this script
| Language | Writing System Code | Writing System Status | SLDR/CLDR locale | Regional variants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quenya | qya-Sara | in use | qya-Sara-001 |
Unicode status
The Sarati script is not yet in Unicode. The script is listed in the Not the Roadmap
page. The explanation given is “Known scripts, with enough information, but insufficient reason to provide pre-allocation.”
Resources
- ScriptSource page for Sarati - all about scripts, languages, and writing systems
- Wikipedia article on Sarati